| Name | CVE-2021-20297 |
| Description | A flaw was found in NetworkManager in versions before 1.30.0. Setting match.path and activating a profile crashes NetworkManager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 986809 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| network-manager (PTS) | jessie | 0.9.10.0-7 | fixed |
| stretch | 1.6.2-3+deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster | 1.14.6-2+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.30.6-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.42.4-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.50.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - network-manager <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - network-manager <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1942741 (not yet public)
Introduced by: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/3ced486f4162edcd03ff42fa27535130aff0c86c (1.26-rc2)
Fixed by: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/commit/420784e342da4883f6debdfe10cde68507b10d27
[jessie] - network-manager <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)